Quotes on Generosity And Kindness

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.

It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.

Without kindness there can be no true joy.

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.